Lady Justice Asplin | |
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Lady Justice of Appeal | |
Assumed office 2017 | |
Justice of the High Court | |
In office 2012–2017 | |
Personal details | |
Born | United Kingdom | 16 September 1959
Alma mater | Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge |
Dame Sarah Jane Asplin, DBE (born 16 September 1959) is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. She was granted the customary appointment as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on appointment as a High Court judge in 2012,becoming the third woman appointed to the Chancery Division. [1]
Asplin attended Southampton Sixth Form College for Girls and read law at Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge,earning a BA in Law in 1982 (promoted to MA (Cantab) by seniority in 1986). [2] She went on to obtain the degree of BCL at St Edmund Hall,Oxford.[ citation needed ]
Asplin was called to the bar (Gray's Inn) in 1984 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2002. [3] She became the Head of Chambers at 3 Stone Buildings in 2009, [4] and was a deputy High Court Judge until her appointment to the High Court on 1 October 2012 as the Honourable Mrs Justice Asplin. She was the third woman to be assigned to the Chancery Division,after Mary Arden and Sonia Proudman. [5]
On 22 February 2013,she was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. [6]
She was promoted to the Court of Appeal on 7 October 2017. [7]
In January 2019,Dame Sarah's appointment as Chair of the Church of England's Clergy Discipline Commission was announced. She simultaneously became the President of the Tribunals. [8]
In 1986,Asplin married Nicholas A. Sherwin,a solicitor with Clifford Chance,who had been a contemporary at Cambridge. [9]